I love emacs and vim. I used GIMP nearly daily for over a year; it still feels weird. The copy/paste flow in particular still trips me up. Pasting creates a "

I love emacs and vim. I used GIMP nearly daily for over a year; it still feels weird. The copy/paste flow in particular still trips me up. Pasting creates a "floating layer". A "floating layer" usually needs to either be "anchored" (merged down into the layer below) or converted to a "new layer". In the meantime, for example: * If the move tool is selected and the "floating layer" is clicked, the "floating layer" is draggable on that click. * If the move tool is selected and the canvas is clicked outside of the "floating layer", the "floating layer" is anchored and undraggable on that click. * If the unified transform tool is selected and the canvas is clicked anywhere, the transform frame is activated for the "floating layer" and it is rotatable on that click. * If the erase tool is selected and the canvas is clicked anywhere, nothing happens, except that the UI flashes. * If the paintbrush tool is selected and the "floating layer" is clicked anywhere, it "paints" – though pixels are only affected within the bounds of the "floating layer", as that's just how things work in GIMP. I'm sure there are perfectly sane reasons that things ended up like this, but the result feels weird to me. I don't really want to have to think about "anchoring" a "floating layer" after pasting it, much less think about what the UI is capable/incapable of doing while there's a "floating layer". I've since moved on to Krita. It feels far less weird.